Kindness Now - Heart Practice for a New Generation of Meditators.
Ready to cultivate an open heart, discover your truth, live your deepest intentions, and experience real change? In Kindness Now, I’ll show you how.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Kindness Now is a journey through the traditional Buddhist heart practices known as the Brahma-Viharas -- Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity -- the essential teachings for a successful meditation practice. Throughout the 28-Days of guided meditation practice, you will learn to become a kinder, more compassionate, and radically loving person.
You will strengthen the basics of a mindfulness meditation practice while experiencing how heart practices guide you towards deeper transformation, personal growth, and connection to your authentic self.
PRAISE FOR KINDNESS NOW
"Offering timely and clear guidance on the heart qualities of mindfulness meditation, Amanda Gilbert shares with us how the simple power of kindness has the capacity to create the world we want to see."
“After 50 years of my own study and practice of these teachings, I’m struck by the great mix of enthusiasm, humility and patience with which Amanda hands you a whole set of keys to unlock the doors to your own trustworthy, kind heart.”
“Amanda Gilbert brilliantly brings modern context to essential teachings of the Buddha. Her time on the cushion and strong peace reverberate through this book and inspire readers on their own journey to develop the underestimated quality of kindness. Kindness Now is an invaluable tool for those in the midst of personal transformation and who are looking for practices to help them show up in the world more effectively.”
“This beautiful, honest, and vulnerable book will teach you many things about kindness. Through practical exercises, meditations, and reflections, Amanda Gilbert gently offers readers a clear and doable path to follow towards greater authenticity and kindness.”
“More than anything in the world, waking up our heart brings happiness, peace, and a more loving world. Let this wise and beautiful book guide you on this path of healing and freedom!”
“Amanda Gilbert offers clear, wise and kindhearted advice to anyone who wishes to develop more kindness in their own heart. She lovingly takes your hand and guides you every step of the way as you walk this twenty-eight-day inner journey. She reveals how by practicing these heart meditations and techniques, that anyone can learn to grow the beautiful heart of kindness.”
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
In Kindness Now you’ll train to uncover meaning, truth, purpose, and healing through practicing kindness. Throughout the book, you’ll learn how to:
Week by week, you’ll discover the heartful magic of each Brahma-Vihara. Take a peek below for what you have in store each week!
This week guides you with teachings on metta where you will learn the powerful yet subtle ways you can meet yourself and others with kindness.
This week guides you into the healing world of compassion and the different facets of learning to meet yourself and others with greater wisdom and understanding.
This week guides you to your true experience of genuine happiness and authenticity by learning that real love and connection come from the generosity of an expanded heart.
This week guides you to your new baseline of being. It will cement the divine abode you have been building over the last three weeks of heart-based practice.
ABOUT AMANDA
Amanda Gilbert is a meditation teacher, professor of mindfulness at the University of Southern California, speaker, and author. She has been a meditator for over seventeen years and now leads meditation for top companies like NBC, Paramount Pictures, W Hotels, Merrill Lynch, Macy’s, and YouTube.
Before dedicating herself to teaching full-time, Amanda was the center director at the University of California, San Francisco’s Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center, a world-renowned health psychology laboratory conducting scientific research, and publishing investigations on the biological and psychological effects of mindfulness, meditation, and stress resilience.
Her formal meditation training has been with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, in primordial sound meditation with Deepak Chopra, and the Insight Meditation tradition. She is now a modern leader in the field of teaching secular meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhist meditation.